Orange Coast Memorial Medical Center in Fountain Valley is wrapping up work on a $50 million expansion.
A six-story, 162,000-square-foot tower is set to be done in late August and see patients in September, said Marcia Manker, the hospital’s chief executive.
Orange Coast is adding the tower to serve a growing number of patients who come to the hospital for procedures that don’t require extended says, Manker said.
Outpatient procedures have grown more than 300% since the hospital was acquired by Fountain Valley-based Memorial Health Services 13 years ago, according to Manker.
“This is a building strictly dedicated to outpatient services that meets the demands of the industry as it changes,” she said.
The building is set to house space for cancer, heart, neurology and orthopedics treatment services, a surgery center with four operating rooms, rehabilitation services, a pharmacy, laboratory and medical offices.
Orange Coast is the 10th largest hospital in the county with yearly revenue of about $195 million, according to the Business Journal’s February list of the largest hospitals here.
The tower is part of a wave of hospital expansions here in the past few years. Unlike others, Orange Coast isn’t putting up its tower to meet California’s earthquake safety law, which requires hospitals to remain operational after a major quake.
For more on this story, see the June 22 edition of the Business Journal.
